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for homework in college i must think of 2 incidents,2 dates and 2 ideas that were turning points in history...i have 1 if each already.
incidents - i have 9/11
ideas - martin luther king "i have a dream speech"
dates - 22/11/63 assassination of JFK
can anyone think of anything,ill be very grateful.
thanks.
incidents - i have 9/11
ideas - martin luther king "i have a dream speech"
dates - 22/11/63 assassination of JFK
can anyone think of anything,ill be very grateful.
thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I suggest 24 Oct. 1929 ('Black Thursday'), the Wall St. crash, which plunged the world into deep recession.
Also 28 June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, precipitating the First World War.
1348 was a grim date too: the worldwide pandemic of the Black Death (pneumonic plague).
August 1945 saw the first use of nuclear weapons.
The prehistory invention of the wheel was pivotal (!).
Also 1848, the first use of anaesthetics.
Britain's Industrial Revolution was a collective superidea
which changed the world dramatically.
More suggestions if you wat them......
Also 28 June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, precipitating the First World War.
1348 was a grim date too: the worldwide pandemic of the Black Death (pneumonic plague).
August 1945 saw the first use of nuclear weapons.
The prehistory invention of the wheel was pivotal (!).
Also 1848, the first use of anaesthetics.
Britain's Industrial Revolution was a collective superidea
which changed the world dramatically.
More suggestions if you wat them......
Hmm first anaesthetic in England was Dec 1847, reported Jan 1 1848 Lancet and didnt really change practice - surgical antisepsis and asepsis did change practice
What about one idea which wasnt reckoned to be a big deal at the time and one idea that was ?
Galileo was one of the first.
Plank and quantum mechanics was the first - and Einstein was one of the second
Robert Koch's researches in bacterial culture is one of the last. [and so was Pasteur's]
Newton and Leibnitz were ones of the first
Curie was one of the first - she got her Nobel prize before she got a Ph D
Dates wh were turning points
1580 assassination of WIlliam the Silent
1688 Accession of Wm III and supremacyof parliament
1789 French Rev
1812 Defeat of Napoleon in Russia
1914 of course
1952 Death of Stalin
1989 Fall of Berlin wwall,
What about one idea which wasnt reckoned to be a big deal at the time and one idea that was ?
Galileo was one of the first.
Plank and quantum mechanics was the first - and Einstein was one of the second
Robert Koch's researches in bacterial culture is one of the last. [and so was Pasteur's]
Newton and Leibnitz were ones of the first
Curie was one of the first - she got her Nobel prize before she got a Ph D
Dates wh were turning points
1580 assassination of WIlliam the Silent
1688 Accession of Wm III and supremacyof parliament
1789 French Rev
1812 Defeat of Napoleon in Russia
1914 of course
1952 Death of Stalin
1989 Fall of Berlin wwall,
B00 I think the moon landing was a different date depending where you lived (ie already tomorrow in some parts of the world).
Tim Berners-Lee and the invention of the world wide web has changed life more dramatically than anything else in my lifetime; more than Gandhi, say.
1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
Tim Berners-Lee and the invention of the world wide web has changed life more dramatically than anything else in my lifetime; more than Gandhi, say.
1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
Incident- August 6th 1945. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima didn't just kill thousands, it actually changed the way warfare was used, or not used in political conflicts.
Idea- 25th March 1807. The Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. After this date, any ship's captain would be fined �100 for every slave he was caught transporting. This was the culmination of a long and protracted human rights conflict.
Date- September 2, 31BC The Battle of Actium. If Cleopatra and Mark Antony had defeated Octavian there would have been no Roman Empire and the cutural experience of Europeans today would be a very different one.
Idea- 25th March 1807. The Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. After this date, any ship's captain would be fined �100 for every slave he was caught transporting. This was the culmination of a long and protracted human rights conflict.
Date- September 2, 31BC The Battle of Actium. If Cleopatra and Mark Antony had defeated Octavian there would have been no Roman Empire and the cutural experience of Europeans today would be a very different one.